I appreciate the comment - but as I said - I cannot even INSTALL to get to a
point where I can turn off PCMCIA anything. Also - this is a kludge -
simply recompile the PCMCIA driver (on a working system, obviously) and turn
OFF the BIOS probe during the config - problem (that's been around since
L-M6.0) solved.
Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] 7.0 and *$&^#$ PCMCIA BIOS probe
>
>
> "Vanco, Donald" wrote:
> >
> > Second sending..... not in the archives
> >
> > Hi all -
> > Is there a way to install 7.0 and NOT have it probe
> my BIOS during
> > the PCMCIA set up? Is there a way to install 7.0 and have
> it SKIP the
> > PCMCIA altogether? I have RH 6.2 and wanted to try the
> released version of
> > 7.0 and it locked my system up after the first 30 seconds
> of the install.
> > Sheesh - should have stuck with the BETAs.
>
> look in /etc/rc.d/rc.local. I commented out these lines...
> #. /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
> #
> #if [ "$PCMCIA" != "yes" ] ; then
> # initty=/dev/tty[1-8]
> # for tty in $initty; do
> # setleds +num < $tty
> # done
> #fi
>
> Ron
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